Spanner IT - DIY Garage

Hi....

I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Jim and being an avid car and motorbike enthusiast I have always been looking for somewhere to allow me to work on my cars in pleasant, clean, dry environment. Today’s homes rarely have suitable garages – mine is no exception. So I decided to set up a dedicated workshop to allow anyone to be able to work on their vehicles when ever they want to, providing the tools and equipment you wished you had at home but don’t have the space for, or can’t justify the cost for that one off job.

Spanner it is the North East’s first DIY Self Service garage based in Darlington and is open to anyone with the basic knowledge, understanding and enthusiasm to work on and maintain their own vehicle but don’t have the necessary space or tools or the wish to pay ever increasing mechanics bills.

www.spannerit.com

Spanner it is equipped to a professional garage standard with the tools you need, a 4 wheel alignment 4 post lift, Parts & component washers, bead/sand blaster, etc.

Everything you need to do virtually any job, including jobs such as….
 Servicing
 Brakes – Pads, Shoes, Discs, Drums etc
 Pre MOT checks
 Valeting
 Engine changes
 Clutches

…. to name but a few.



1. General overview of the workshop



2. 4 wheel alignment 4 post lift.

Not just for cars, Spanner it is fully setup for motorbikes as well, providing a dedicated motorbike lift and space.



3. Motorbike Bay

In fact, Spanner it is for anyone, male or female, young or old, who wants to work on their own vehicles without large mechanics bills.

I appreciate that you are a southern based forum but if you are passing please feel free to pop in for coffee and a chat or if you know anyone in our area please let them know about us.

We have now put together some specials rates for members as below

The normal rates are as follows
Flat Bay - including standard set of tools, jacks, axles stands and ramps is £15 per hour
4 post wheel alignment lift including standard set of tools is £20 per hour
Bike Bay - including bike lift or stand and a standard set of tools is £10 per hour

If when making a booking you let us know you are a member of the forum and your user ID we will give you a 10% discount on the above prices.

If you want to get together as a group and come down for evening, 1/2 or a full day so that you can work on things together, we will do you the following specials rates for the whole place dedicated just to you.

4 hours = £120
Full day = £200
Weekend 2 full days = £325

We are more than happy if you even just want to use us as a meeting venue or starting point to a run out. We recently have had a sports car club in, as we have plenty of space


If you have any questions or wish further information, please feel free to contact me or visit at the website www.spannerit.com or on Facebook

All the very best, I will be mentioning this to the ABVWC at the April Committee meeting if your happy for me too last months was canceled unfortunately.

Regards,

Daz

Don't mean this to be a thread hijack as Spanner It workshop looks very impressive, prices reasonable and the use of tools fantastic.

Obviously it's a very long way from Hampshire. Closer to 'home' for some of us is Van Shack in Eynsham where there is a similar opportunity on a Saturday:

"Hot Bay: Saturdays, buy appointment, but generally 11:00 till 4ish you bring your tools and work on your vehicle in our workshop, first half hour free, minimum 2 hour booking, £18 per/hr or £81 for the 5 hours. tea - coffee - advice all free. So for £27 for the first 2hrs you are in the dry, off your drive, away from err-in-doors and the neighbours doing what's needed, can't be bad. Call to book as it can be a frenzy here some saturdays. By the way a case of Guiness or Bud goes along way if you haven't got the full £78?"

I quote from their site, I have not used the Hot Bay. They have carried out some minor welding and spraying on BR and did a good job.

http://www.vanshack.com/index.html

In the news section they mention spraying steel with molten zinc to galvanise parts in situ and also a removable for a splittie. (Ron?)

Grizzly wrote:All the very best, I will be mentioning this to the ABVWC at the April Committee meeting if your happy for me too last months was canceled unfortunately.

Regards,

Daz

Thanks Daz

Very happy for you to mention us at the committee meeting, if you need any further information please let me know